Caryl C Gordon

BIO:

Growing up in Short Hills, N.J., Caryl Gordon was only a short commute to New York City. At 16 years of age, she attended life drawing classes at the Art Student’s League in Manhattan on Saturday’s.

After one year at Connecticut College, craving more of an art education , she was accepted at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts, more commonly known as the Boston Museum School. Being drawn back to New York and its exciting culture, Gordon matriculated at the Cooper Union School of Art and Architecture receiving a full scholarship and a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in 1975.

During and after having 4 children, Gordon had a freelance photography business sharpening her composition skills. At age 40, she relocated to Plano, Texas near Dallas where she was gifted a 2000 pound etching press. The next 15 years were spent in her garage making monoprints. Along the way, her prints were juried into shows across the United Stares in museums, galleries and universities.

Printing led to a new medium, painting with encaustic. This new medium for Gordon( actually an ancient process going back thousands of years to the Greeks and Romans) became a passion. No longer printing in her garage, Gordon now has a...

BFA The Cooper Union School of Art and Architecture, New York, NY

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2019 April
The Sweet Art Gallery
Naples, Florida

2017 December
Haley-Henman Gallery
Dallas, Texas

2017 April
The Sweet Art Gallery
Naples, Florida

2016 Geometrics and Organics
Galatea Fine Art
Boston, Massachusetts

2016 The Sweet Art Gallery
Naples, Florida

2014 November
"Boston in Surround Sound"
Galatea Fine Art
Boston, MA

2014 February – March
"If Children Built Our Cities"
Pfamily Arts
Plano, TX

2013 January
"Mass Masonry"
Galatea Fine Art
Boston, Massachusetts

2010 December
The New Art Center
New York, New York

2010 February - April
"Redefining Nature"
The Encaustic Center
Richardson, Texas

2009 July - September
Capital One Bank / Corporate Office Building
Plano, Texas

2007 November-December
“Redefining Nature”
Cedar Valley College
Lancaster, Texas
(Solo exhibition with classroom demonstration)

1998 September – October
“Land, Sea and Sky, an Introspective Outlook”
La Cima Club
Las Colinas, Texas

TWO PERSON SHOWS:

2009 April
Verizon Corporate Gallery
Irving, Texas

2002 October - November
Northlake College
Irving, Texas

2001 February
Collin County Community College
Executive Offices
Plano, Texas